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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Phonological Awareness
Vr
Mathew Effect
Towre
2. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
IMSLEC
Norm-Referenced Test
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Auditory Processing
3. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Adolf Kusmaul
VAKT
Syllable
V >
4. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Keith Stanovich
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Texas Education Code 38.003
5. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Macron
Percentile
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Stanine Scores
6. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Trigraph
Vr
The Norman Conquest
7. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
VAKT
Phonology
ALTA
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
8. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Curriculum referenced tests
Fluency
The Norman Conquest
Joe Torgesen
9. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Direct Instruction
Universal Screening
Diphthong
Quadrigraph
10. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Top-down Reading Approach
Vowel Digraph
Accuracy
Vowel
11. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Expressive language
Modern English
Components of Reading Instruction
ALTA
12. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Anna Gillingham
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Derivative
Mastery level
13. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Standardized test
Consonant
Diagnostic tests
Digraph
14. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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15. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Texas Education Code 28.06
Old English
Reliability
James Hinshelwood
16. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Towre
Phonemic/ decodable words
Joe Torgesen
Anna Gillingham
17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Pre-English
Quadrigraph
Cognitive Assessment
18. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Comprehension
Stanine Scores
Derivative
Diphthong
19. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
MSLE
Letter naming Chart
Prefix
Accent
20. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Closed Syllable
Semantics
Phonological Awareness
Accuracy
21. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Funding
Macron
IEP
Frank Smith
22. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Modern English
RTI
IEP
Samuel T. Orton
23. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Combination
Phonology
ESL
Grapheme
24. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Rate
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Profile
ALTA
25. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Vowel
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Top-down Reading Approach
Derived Score
26. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Universal Screening
Joe Torgesen
Oral Language
Matthew Effect
27. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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28. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Letter naming Chart
Funding
Linguistic Method
Tactile
29. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Digraph
Battery
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Consonant
30. r-controlled syllable
Ability
Synthetic Instruction
Vr
Chall's Stage 3
31. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Morphology
Criterion referenced tests
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Norm-referenced tests
32. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Consonant Digraph
Top-down Reading Approach
Tilde
Age equivalent
33. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
IDEA
Receptive language
Auditory Processing
Standard deviation
34. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
IEP
Samuel T. Orton
Mastery level
35. Multisensory Structured Language
Phonemic Awareness
Phonological Awareness
Phonics approach
MSL
36. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Reading Comprehension Support
Consonant Digraph
Consonant
37. Whole body learning
Auditory Learners
Latin layer of language
Kinesthetic
Dyslexia
38. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
IEP
Attention
Tilde
Reading Comprehension Support
39. Final stable syllable
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40. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Greek layer of language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
41. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Top-down Reading Approach
Morpheme
Tilde
Affix
42. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
IDEA
Open Syllable
Syllable Instruction
43. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Norm-referenced tests
Stanine Scores
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
44. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
VAKT
Academic Achievement Tests
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Combination
45. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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46. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Expressive language
Rate
Phonemic Awareness
Norm-referenced tests
47. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Norm-referenced tests
Base Word
MSLE
Dyslexia
48. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
SBOE
Curriculum referenced tests
Grapheme
Latin layer of language
49. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Phonics
Standard deviation
Samuel T. Orton
Multisensory
50. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Vowel
Anglo Saxon
Open Syllable
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